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Thorax ash-grey, with, on the front border, two black spots 

 joined together ; a wide jet-black transverse band across the meso- 

 thorax, reaching the wing-insertions, where it is slightly produced 

 posteriorly ; scutellum unicolorous, basal half black. The whole 

 thorax and scutellum beset with isolated long stiff bristles, includ- 

 ing two longer ones at the tip of the scutellum. Sides of thorax 

 whitish grey, with some stiff bristles. 



Abdomen pale yellowish ; first segment semi-transparent, with 

 an oblong black spot on the posterior border towards each side 

 that is often indistinct or nearly absent ; second and third segments 

 with a long linear spot on each side of the posterior border and a 

 small oval spot in the centre of the foreborder ; fourth segment ash- 

 grey, with two round black spots in the centre, these spots much 

 wider in the 5 . Belly yellowish white, blackish at tip. Dorsum 

 of abdomen with soft black hair, which is also present at the sides 

 of the segments while at each side on the posterior border of each 

 segment, placed at the extreme edge, are two long black bristles 

 posteriorly deflexed. 



Legs black or dark brown ; anterior femora curved, with a 

 row of stiff hairs on the upper side and another row on the out- 

 side ; middle femora with a row of very short hairs below and 

 a few on the upper side and one or two long bristles at the tip ; 

 posterior femora very slightly curved, with a row of stiff hairs 

 on the outer side above and on the inner side below ; tibiae prac- 

 tically bare, with a few spiny bristles at the tip ; tarsi simple. 



Wings clear ; the third and fourth longitudinal veins distinctly 

 converging at the tip (as in Hydrotcea) but at the extreme tip 

 the fourth slightly deflexed ; the internal cross vein placed at two 

 thirds of the distance from the base of the discal cell ; external 

 cross vein nearly or quite straight, distant its own length from 

 the internal cross vein and half its length from the wing border. 

 Three or four short, stiff bristles at the extreme base of the costa ; 

 alulae white, iridescent, the lower scale much the larger ; halteres 

 pale yellowish. 



Described from 5 cf a' in the Indian Museum collection 

 taken by Dr. Annandale in houses at Lucknow on April 21st, 

 1907, and from a considerable number of specimens of both sexes 

 taken by me at Mhow, Central India, between April nth and i6th, 

 1905, and at Mussoorie between June 20th and 24th, 1905. A 

 & from the Gonda district, Central India, taken between March 

 3rd and 5th, 1907, is also in the Indian Museum. 



Limnophora himalayenis, sp. nov., mihi. (Plate xv, fig 3, 9 .) 



2 . This species is allied to the preceding one but quite dis- 

 tinct ; it differs from L. tonit/ui in the following characters : — 



The abdominal marks consist of a pair of well separated 

 spots in the centre of the posterior part of each of the first 

 three segments, the first pair small and round, the second elongated, 

 triangular in shape and placed lengthwise, with the bases of the 



